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I'm inclined to share your skepticism. It's virtually impossible to write a truly good book in three days. That being said, I give him a lot of credit. I give
by jonnathanson 14y ago
I'm inclined to share your skepticism. It's virtually impossible to write a truly good book in three days.
That being said, I give him a lot of credit. I give him credit because the hardest part of writing a book is writing a freakin' book. Anyone who's ever seriously attempted the exercise knows that much. You have to overcome ten million types of personal inertia to get started, and ten million types of friction and resistance in order to keep at it. There may be no shortage of bad books out there, but there's a substantially larger number of unfinished books. The latter problem dwarfs the former.
While I haven't read his book, and I can't say for certain what his thesis may be, it seems to follow the "move fast and break things" philosophy. If that's the case, then it seems fitting he put his money where his mouth is, and wrote the book in the spirit it is intended to convey.
We'll see if it's actually worth reading. But even if it's not, hey, at least he did something. He may have succeeded, or he may have failed, but he got started. I hope he's got more books where this came from, and that each one gets better as he progresses.